My dog Tucker likes to watch TV. He watches it a little all the time, particularly when there are animals on, but other times as well. He has always, without exception, responded to the screen in one of three ways:
Curious
Happy
Disinterested
Tonight were watching Bush’s Meet The Press appearance, and Tucker was at my feet. About 10 minutes into it, Tucker starts staring intently at the screeen. Then his lips curl into a snarl, and he spends the next five minutes growling and snarling at George Bush. When the camera rested on Tim Russert for a minute or so, he stopped snarling, sort of turning away. The minute Bush was back, Tucker’s head snapped back to attention and he started snarling again.
I have never seen Tucker act this way to anyone, on TV or in real life.
My god, you are a one-trick pony. Maybe Tucker’s loyal enough to resent the curiously twisted hold Bush Jr. has over you. Maybe he was growling at Bush and thinking, “If you’d just get off the telly, maybe my mistress would get a life.”
I don’t really think of stoid as a one-trick pony. It seems to me that she recognizes the most important thing that needs to be accomplished in this nation (regime change), and has decided that until it has been achieved, all of her energies will be expended in service of that task.
Admittedly, I haven’t been reading that much of her output on the board lately. But to me, One-Trick-Ponyhood implies the kind of obsession that would lead her to offer her recipe for Impeachment Meat Loaf in a Cafe Society thread devoted to sharing comfort-food recipes.
eh, we have like 993423235235235159135213502.124515 threads about “Bush is evil” What we need is some variety. Next week all threads must be about evil junior Senators, the following week, evil Representatives, and the week after that: Evil Cabinet members. failure to comply means something, but i’m not sure what.
Ok, so, I thought I’d follow the OP, and do a bit of research. I mean, everyone remember the First Cat Socks (ala Clinton), and we all remember Bush Sr.'s First Dog, Millie…but I couldn’t remember any mention of W. having any pets in office.
The only reference I could find about George W. and any possible pets, was he had a puppy out of one of Millie’s litters. The name, however, is what kind of amused me. The very picture of originality, Georgie-boy is…his dog’s name, you ask?
Personally, I consider a hatred of GWB to be very rational. He’s dividing the country between haves and have-nots, he has an irrational fear of same sex marriages, and is probably the worst president this country has seen in the last 75 years.
Jesus, people. Get a grip. Stoid posted a funny story about her dog growling at the same time that Bush was speaking. She didn’t point to it as conclusive proof that Shrub is evil.
It was a funny OP, Stoid. I may be missing your message, but it seemed to me you weren’t actually recommending canine reactionarianism as a political model.
(Remember that scene in ‘Where the Buffalo Roam’ where Bill Murray [as Hunter Thompson] trains a pair of Dobermans on a Nixon dummy?
Its no surprise Dogs don’t like Bush… not even Pretzels like Bush ! Though they failed to kill him…
I guess the dog was reacting to your hate for Bush than any perceived “evil/asshole detector”. If your dog really acted on his own though he is smarter than 47% of americans who want to vote for Bush !
You think that’s bad? The last time Blair appeared on my TV, my cat whipped out an Uzi and, saying “get out of my living room”, gunned the thing into shreds.
I wouldn’t mind so much, but I’d only just replaced the damn thing after she chainsawed the last one in half while watching a documentary with Jaques Chiraq in it.
